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The Longest Day |
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Genre
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War,
Epic,
War Epic.
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Year
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1962 |
Director
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Ken Annakin,
Andrew Marton,
Bernhard Wicki.
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Actors
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John Wayne,
Robert Mitchum,
Henry Fonda,
Robert Ryan,
Rod Steiger,
Richard Todd,
Richard Burton,
Robert Wagner,
Mel Ferrer,
Jeffrey Hunter,
Paul Anka,
Sal Mineo,
Roddy McDowall,
Stuart Whitman,
Eddie Albert,
Edmond O'Brien,
Fabian,
Red Buttons,
Tom Tryon,
Alexander Knox,
Tommy Sands,
Ray Danton,
Henry W. Grace,
Mark Damon,
Dewey Martin,
John Crawford,
Ron Randell,
Nick Stuart,
John Meillon,
Kenneth More,
Peter Lawford,
Leo Genn,
John Gregson,
Sean Connery,
Jack Hedley,
Irina Demick,
Bourvil,
Jean-Louis Barrault,
Christian Marquand,
Arletty,
Madeleine Renaud,
Georges Riviere,
Jean Servais,
Georges Wilson,
Curd Jürgens,
Werner Hinz,
Paul Hartmann,
Hans-Christian Blech,
Peter Van Eyck,
Heinz Reincke,
Richard Münch,
Kurt Meisel,
Patrick Barr,
Michael Beint,
Richard Beymer,
Lyndon Brook,
Wolfgang Buttner,
Pauline Carton,
Bryan Coleman,
Eugene Deckers,
Fred Durr,
Frank Finlay,
Steve Forrest,
Harry Fowler,
Robert Freitag,
Gert Fröbe,
Daniel Gélin,
Harold Goodwin,
Ruth Hausmeister,
Peter Helm,
Michael Hinz,
Donald Houston,
Karl John,
Til Kiwe,
Simon Lack,
Fernand Ledoux,
Christopher Lee,
Wolfgang Lukschy,
Howard Marion-Crawford,
Neil McCallum,
Michael Medwin,
Bill Nagy,
Rainer Penkert,
Sian Phillips,
Leslie Phillips,
Maurice Poli,
Wolfgang Preiss,
Trevor Reid,
John Robinson,
Françoise Rosay,
Norman Rossington,
Dietmar Schoenherr,
Ernst Schroeder,
George Segal,
Heinz Spitzner,
Alice Tissot,
Vicco Von Buelow,
Richard Wattis.
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File
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Runtime: |
179:00 |
Codec: |
dvd-rip / xvid |
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703.50 Mb |
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Storyline:
The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each actor speaks in his or her native language with subtitles translating for the benefit of the audience (alternate "takes" were made of each scene with the foreign actors speaking English, but these were seen only during the first network telecast of the film in 1972). The stars are listed alphabetically, with the exception of John Wayne, who as Lt. Colonel Vandervoort gets separate billing. Others in the huge cast include Eddie Albert, Jean-Louis Barrault, Richard Burton, Red Buttons, Sean Connery, Henry Fonda, Gert Frobe, Curt Jurgens, Peter Lawford, Robert Mitchum, Kenneth More, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Jean Servais, Rod Steiger and Robert Wagner. Paul Anka, who wrote the film's title song, shows up as an Army private. Scenes include the Allies parachuting into Ste. Mere Englise, where the paratroopers were mowed down by German bullets; a real-life sequence wherein the German and Allied troops unwittingly march side by side in the dark of night; and a spectacular three-minute overhead shot of the troops fighting and dying in the streets of Quistreham. The last major black-and-white road-show attraction, The Longest Day made millions, enough to recoup some of the cost of 20th Century Fox's concurrently produced Cleopatra. |
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